Mississippi Denies Parents the Right to Informed Consent

Mississippi
has high parental compliance to childhood vaccination. Now, this may
seem like a wonderful thing to some at first glance, but upon further
examination, it is revealed that our vaccination policies are doing
nothing to improve the overall health of our state. We have the
highest infant mortality rate. Obviously our high vaccination rates
are not producing the ONE result any reasonable person would expect
to see, which is a lower infant morality rate.

In
addition, the manner in which our high vaccination rates are obtained
is through a blatant violation of parental rights. 48 states (all but
West Virginia and Mississippi) allow non-medical exemptions for those
parents who wish to decline one or more vaccinations. We have only a
rarely-granted medical exemption.

These
states who have non-medical exemptions do not experience epidemic
outbreaks as a result of these exemptions, which serves to disprove
the notion that looser exemption policies would bring more disease in
Mississippi. In fact, there is no scientific proof backing the
theory that unvaccinated or partially vaccinated children are a
threat to the public more so than fully vaccinated children.

There
have been documented cases of disease outbreaks in mostly and fully
vaccinated communities. Some of the vaccines are not even known to
decrease transmission from person to person. Immunity is a very
individual condition which is unique to every person, vaccinated or
not. There are far too many factors which determine immunity than
vaccination status. (If true immunity were desired by the state, it
would require that each and every child have titers run to confirm
adequate antibody levels.)

Ask
any parent who has attempted to obtain a medical exemption and you
will find that it is a joke. The process seems reasonable at first:
If a child’s medical doctor feels that the child should not be
vaccinated, that doctor can write an exemption. However, in an utter
disregard to the doctor's expertise and the individual medical
condition of the child, the State Regional health officer can then
simply throw the exemption out, and usually does.

What
does this mean for parents who are seeking to decline one or more
vaccines, and cannot homeschool? They are forced to move out of
Mississippi or submit their child to every vaccine on the schedule.
Vaccine reactions or injuries which result from this are then the
parents’ problems, as the vaccine manufacturers and state are not
legally liable. (That’s right; they’ve managed, somehow, to have
their cake and eat it too.)

This
is a clear violation of a parent’s right to informed consent in
medical care. Informed consent is something we all deserve to have:
It's the right to be fully informed of all of the risks and benefits
of a medical procedure, and the right to consent OR REFUSE the
procedure. This problem calls for a public outcry. We need to demand
the same rights as parents have in most every other state in this
country: the
right to informed consent.

Feel
free to contact me day or night to discuss this matter.
I
want your personal stories, complaints, fears, and demands! We can
change this situation but we all need to work together…contact me
and I’ll tell you how you can help. You don’t need to be
anti-vaccine to be concerned about this matter; you need only to
understand that vaccines hold risks and parents deserve the right to
refuse without penalty.

We need all the support we can get. If you want to help or just have questions please call or e-mail.
If anyone from Mississippi has avoided vaccines for their kids and were able to send them to day-care or school
please contact us. Our email. is posted above.